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A NASA-published volume traces the history of human lunar lander concepts developed since Apollo’s Lunar Module (LM). After LM – NASA Lunar Lander Concepts Beyond Apollo tells the story of ...
The Chang’e 5 spacecraft followed a familiar, Apollo-style playbook, consisting of a service module that supplied power and propulsion to a lunar lander and a module for returning samples to Earth.
That is the challenge tackled by a group of students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, who wrote a proposal for ...
In the early 1960s, NASA was considering three different ideas for landing a man on the lunar surface. Houbolt's plan ultimately won out despite concerns within NASA that it was too risky.
While Grumman may have built the Lunar Module back in the '60s, it's doubtful that any of those engineers are still around or employed by the now Northrop Grumman to have worked on this. Still an ...
The claim: Post implies Apollo missions didn't happen because lunar module can't travel between Earth and the moon. A Dec. 7 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of a stealth ...
Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later.
Lunar rover designed for compact travel, easy set-up. The post uses an authentic photo found in the National Archives of Apollo 15 astronaut James Irwin on the moon standing beside the first lunar ...
The Chandrayaan-3 mission's lunar lander is shown on the moon's surface. The Vikram lander touched down August 23 after separating from the propulsion module, which remained in lunar orbit.
The Apollo 15 lunar rover vehicle (LRV) was designed to fold into the lunar module, contrary to suggestions in posts online that the moon landings must have been faked because it would have been ...